Actualizing the Perfection of Patience
Lama Yeshe teaches on Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend and the importance of developing patience in situations where strong emotions arise.
Lama Yeshe teaches on Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend and the importance of developing patience in situations where strong emotions arise.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches that Dharma practice needs continual effort for a long time in order to achieve liberation and enlightenment, in this excerpt from the 39th Kopan Course.
Advice on how to overcome attachment by reflecting on the nature of the body, the sufferings of samsara, and the emptiness, or lack of true existence, of the object of attachment.
The Heart’s Utmost Need: Urging Myself and Others to Remember Impermanence. This text, formerly known as Heart-Spoon, was extensively revised by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 2020, and further reviewed by Rinpoche in 2022.
Advice on how to eliminate anger by practicing patience and thus contributing to world peace.
This text by the great Indian pandit Nagarjuna is famous for its descriptions of the bodhisattva's path of compassion and for its clear, concise analysis of the Buddha's teachings on emptiness.
A praise to the Buddha, composed by Lama Tsongkhapa after he realized emptiness. Translated by Geshe Thupten Jinpa.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche has recommended this prayer for protection and healing from the coronavirus COVID-19.
A prayer for peace in Tibet and compassion in the world.
The real enemy is ignorance, the self-cherishing thought, so there’s no reason to get angry with external conditions
A short lamrim prayer that contains the essence of the whole path to enlightenment
How to deal with attachment, so we remain calm and clear when experiencing pleasure.
A short prayer that helps us develop the correct attitude toward the virtuous friend.
We have the potential to be totally free from the suffering of samsara and its cause, delusion and karma.
A seminal text that sets out the stages of the path to enlightenment (lamrim)